Qiu Qingtao, Duan Jinghao, Gong Guanzhong, Yin Yong
Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology,Institution of Biomedical Sciences,School of Physics and Electronics,Shandong Normal University,Jinan 250358,China (Qiu QT);Department of Radiation Oncology,Shandong Cancer Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University,Jinan 250117,China (Duan JH,Gong GZ,Yin Y)
Abstract：Radiomics has played an irreplaceable role along with the development of precision medicine. In the field of radiomics researches, the stability of imaging features is of vital significance, which is directly linked to the modeling analysis. In this review, we summarized the recent research progress on the reproducibility problems in four crucial steps of the standard workflow of radiomics including imaging acquisition and reconstruction, region of interest (ROI) segmentation, imaging feature extraction and modeling establishment. In addition, the commonly used software related to radiomics was briefly introduced.
Qiu Qingtao,Duan Jinghao,Gong Guanzhong et al. Research progress on radiomics reproducibility[J]. Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology, 2018, 27(3): 327-330.
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